WidgetBear
WidgetBear turns Chrome's new tab into a desk for your day: tabs and links filed into collections, your bookmarks, and today's calendar, to-dos and headlines in one glance.
The first thing you see is what the day holds.
Close twenty tabs without losing any of them.
Chrome's bookmarks, right next to everything else.
Your dashboard, your layout
Each space has its own dashboard on a 12-column grid. Add a panel, drag it by its handle, pull its corner to resize. Keep a calm Work space with your schedule and links, and a Focus space with a timer and your routine.
Nothing changes until you press Save, so trying out a layout is free.
Ways to use it
A space is a new tab with its own purpose: its own dashboard and its own collections. Switch spaces from the sidebar and the whole page changes with you. Here are four ways people set them up.
For people who live by their list. The to-dos sit front and center with their due dates, the morning routine checks itself off one item at a time, and the calendar shows which days have something due.
Tip Rename the routine panel ("Morning routine") and it starts fresh every day, so yesterday's checks never get in the way.
Each news panel can follow its own keyword, so one tracks the Nasdaq and another the S&P 500 (or a sector, or the stocks you hold). Clocks for Seoul and New York show which market is open, and the quote panel, set to investing, serves a maxim a day.
Tip In a news panel's settings, keep only the publishers you trust, or hide the noisy ones. A pinned collection keeps your broker, charts and filings one click away.
A session is every tab in your window, saved as one collection. Working on a bug with twelve tabs open and need to switch to something else? Save the session, close the tabs, and come back to exactly where you were.
Tip Double-click a session's name to call it what it's for ("Payment bug · Oct 21"). Keep a Projects space just for sessions.
Not every space has to be work. Mix the playful panels into a dashboard that's simply nice to look at: a quote for the morning, today's fortune with a lucky color, a few animated bears, a timer and a small routine for the day.
Tip Eight animated bears to choose from: hello, happy, cheering, love, thanks, sleepy, curious and party. Dark theme makes them pop.
From any page
Click the toolbar icon and the side panel opens next to the page. Drop it into a collection, start a new one, or save every open tab at once. If the page is already saved, it tells you where.
#tag to filter.WidgetBear has no accounts, and no servers except for the Send files widget, which uses a small server to connect two browsers (and, when a direct connection is blocked, an encrypted relay) and never stores your files. Everything you save lives in your own browser, and Google Calendar talks to Google directly.
Yes. There's no paid plan, no ads and no account.
In your browser's extension storage on this computer. It doesn't sync on its own; to move to another computer, use Settings → Backup to export a file and import it there. Removing the extension deletes the data, so export a backup first.
Google Chrome 116 or newer. Other Chromium browsers such as Edge, Brave and Arc can run it too, but Google Calendar sign-in is built on Chrome's own Google account support.
To list the tabs open in your window so you can save them, and to show and edit your Chrome bookmarks in the Bookmarks view. WidgetBear never reads what's on a page. The privacy policy explains every permission.
No. Everything else works without it, and you can remove the Schedule panel. Once it's connected, you can also add Outlook, Apple Calendar or Notion calendars to the schedule with an iCal link.
The memo is encrypted with a key made from the PIN, and the PIN isn't stored anywhere, so the text can't be recovered. "Forgot PIN?" erases the memo so you can start over.
Export from Toby (JSON) or OneTab (the text list), then open Settings → Import in WidgetBear and pick the file. Collections and links come across as they were.
WidgetBear is coming to the Chrome Web Store.
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